Privilege Escalation vulnerability during daily DAT updates when using McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 15 allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links. This is timing dependent.
Weakness
The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8 (including) | 8.8 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch1 (including) | 8.8-patch1 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch10 (including) | 8.8-patch10 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch11 (including) | 8.8-patch11 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch12 (including) | 8.8-patch12 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch13 (including) | 8.8-patch13 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch14 (including) | 8.8-patch14 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch2 (including) | 8.8-patch2 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch3 (including) | 8.8-patch3 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch4 (including) | 8.8-patch4 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch5 (including) | 8.8-patch5 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch6 (including) | 8.8-patch6 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch7 (including) | 8.8-patch7 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch8 (including) | 8.8-patch8 (including) |
| Virusscan_enterprise | Mcafee | 8.8-patch9 (including) | 8.8-patch9 (including) |
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/122.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/233.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/58.html